Letters from a Tory on Paul Dacre’s whinge about privacy:
“The problem here is that you don’t really grasp the concept of privacy, presumably because you have spent so much of your professional life ignoring it. Like you, I believe that a free press is essential if we are to maintain any notion of living [...]
Entries Tagged as 'human rights'
A response to the vagina monologuer
November 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: human rights · press
Olympics Starting Gun
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Part of Amnesty’s ‘The China Debate’ campaign.
Tags: China · human rights
Inside the Guantanamo Courtroom
July 29th, 2008 · No Comments
The “trial” of Osama Bin Laden’s driver*, Salim Hamdan, started last week and the New York Times brings the world an excellent summary of what’s going on behind the almost closed door of the Guantanamo “courtroom”**:
The interrogations of Mr. Hamdan have caused him to sometimes think the trial is just another method of interrogation, a [...]
Tags: USA · War on Terror(ism) · torture
Torture, extraordinary rendition and the UK
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Binyam Mohamed, the last British man left in the US’s terrorist holiday camp in Cuba*, is asking the UK if they wouldn’t mind awfully providing him with the evidence that he has been a victim of torture and extraordinary rendition**.
Mr Mohamed needs this evidence so that he can defend himself in a prosecution before [...]
Tags: Labour · USA · War on Terror(ism) · torture
China’s Olympic Values
April 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Amnesty are getting quite good at this video malarkey. Hot on the heels of their fantastic and disturbing waterboarding cinema advert, comes this:
(Hat-tip: Pickled Politics)
Find out more here.
Surfing USA
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Amnesty International has a new cinema advert out today: an ode to water it would seem, part of their unsubscribe campaign.
Tags: War on Terror(ism) · torture
We Stooped to Conquer - the treatment of Detainee 063
April 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I may possibly have mentioned the Yoo Torture Memo earlier this week* - the legal advice which allowed the US military to torture prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and other prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Philippe Sands, in an article for Vanity Fair this month, reveals the effect of the approved interrogation techniques on just [...]
Tags: USA · War on Terror(ism) · torture
Yoo Torture if You Want To
April 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
The New York Times reports that the infamous CIA torture memo (narrowly redefining torture to the point of almost irrelevance) was mirrored in the advice tendered to the US military which probably applied until 2005. The Times:
“The memorandum gave the military broad latitude to use harsh interrogation methods. It reasoned that federal laws prohibiting assault [...]
Tags: USA · War on Terror(ism) · torture
Guantanamo Bay guards: The "overlooked victims"
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Sometimes you’ve got to laugh or you’ll cry and then go into a deep funk filled with moments of suicidal depression. These words of wisdom come from Professor John Smith, a retired US Air Force captain, who treated a former guard at the US’s notorious Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba (as reported by the [...]
Tags: USA · War on Terror(ism) · torture
Diego Garcia: Not just extraordinary rendition
February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
After yesterday’s confession, comes the political analysis and reaction from Anthony Barnett of Our Kingdom, reminding us that the UK soil in question, Diego Garcia, has also been home to other human rights abuses:
"It is appalling and shameful but believable that senior front-benchers preparing for Question Time never asked whether there are any British troops [...]
Tags: human rights · torture









